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Posts tagged with 'anime' and 'Miyazaki' at MetaFilter.Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:48:56 -0800Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:48:56 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60The anime of Makoto Shinkai: beautiful, somber, with moments of humorhttp://www.metafilter.com/142854/The%2Danime%2Dof%2DMakoto%2DShinkai%2Dbeautiful%2Dsomber%2Dwith%2Dmoments%2Dof%2Dhumor
"If I had been born 10 years earlier, I don't think I would be an animator," wrote <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Shinkai">Makoto Shinkai</a>. Despite the fact that even his earliest animations were completed with a Mac and a tablet, his style is influenced by the works of prior Japanese animators, even <a href="http://activeanime.com/html/2005/09/27/makoto-shinkai-the-place-promised-in-our-early-days-director/">earning him the title "the next Miyazaki," which he says is an honor, but overstating his skills</a>. From his earliest short, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pWxRz-BsNo"><em>Other Worlds</em></a>, he set some of the tone and pacing featured in his subsequent works, which are <a href="http://www.tested.com/art/movies/442545-2d-animation-digital-era-interview-japanese-director-makoto-shinkai/">discussed in the lead up to an interview Shinkai did with Tested</a>. Shinkai's second work, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ocjfp_horriblesubs-she-and-her-cat-01-480p_creation"><em>She and Her Cat</em></a>, was another casually paced piece in black and white, but with much more detail in the animation and in the audio. He created the less than 5 minute long piece in the course of 5 months, doing everything except for the music himself, even recording his own vocals in his living room. It's a quiet story of a cat coming into the life of a lady, and their friendship, as told from the point of view of the cat.
The animation was improved from lessons learned at his day job at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Falcom">Nihon Falcom</a>, where he worked on graphic design for the company and animation clips for their games, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0osJl8oRCCg"><em>Bittersweet Fools</em></a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9003c_m-shinkai-wind-a-breath-of-heart-op_videogames"><em>Wind: A Breath of Heart</em></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJFw5oKxPQ"><em>Footstep Of Spring</em></a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvNlpnM79n4"><em>Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two</em></a>.
The first of his longer works was <a href="http://vimeo.com/690988"><em>Voices of a Distant Star</em></a> (Japanese audio, Chinese subtitles; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0__ctDAL4nQ">trailer with English subs</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_of_a_Distant_Star">Wikipedia page with full plot</a>). Created by himself, Shinkai even provided the voices for the first dub with his girlfriend at that time, though the final version featured professional voice actors. Though the film is broadly about a young girl who is recruited by the UN Space Army to fight aliens, at its core <a href="http://otakuinreview.com/blog/2011/10/19/interview-makoto-shinkai.html">it is about how technology shapes relationships</a>, another general theme to follow through his a number of works.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWre-OYeVsQ"><em>The Place Promised in Our Early Days</em></a> (English dub) was the first feature-length film by Shinkai, who also had an animation team to work with him, resulting an a much more polished product. The story is again about strained efforts to communicate, this time between friends who are split by a war that divides Japan, in something of an alternate universe where the southern islands are occupied by U.S. forces and the north by the mysterious "Union," who build a giant tower for unknown reason(s).
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6sZ8K3Vy0"><em>5 Centimeters Per Second</em></a> (Japanese audio, English subs) doesn't include any science fiction, but includes something of nostalgia for the recent past, starting in the time before widespread use of cell phones and email, and <a href="http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/features/2008/06/01/interview-with-makoto-shinkai/">Shinkai focuses on the various implications of trains as a mode of transportation, something that can bring strangers together and as something that can create a barrier</a>.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmHo_0mgos0"><em>Children who Chase Lost Voices</em></a> (trailer, Japanese audio, English subs; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjkbvkOp_Rs">full film</a> in English with Arabic subs) is <a href="http://from-the-sidelines.blogspot.com/2013/12/children-who-chase-lost-voices-from.html">a visually stunning meditation on death, love, and loneliness, this story of a girl's journey to a mystical underworld doesn't shy away from the harsh things encountered in life,</a> and that review also likens the film to what might happen if there were a collaboration between Hayao Miyazaki and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isao_Takahata">Isao Takahata</a>.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMabhvDoolc"><em>The Garden of Words</em></a> (trailer, Japanese with English subs; <a href="http://vimeo.com/100020051">full movie</a>, dubbed in English) is <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2013-05-01/makoto-shinkai-the-garden-of-words-interview">designed to be an homage to the beauty of Tokyo, and Makoto Shinkai made the film shorter to be something that people could enjoy in their spare time for a bit of relaxation</a>. The story is <a href="http://twitchfilm.com/2013/06/review-shinkai-makotos-garden-of-words-is-cheesy-but-has-heart.html">a simple one about love, with solitude and sadness as ingredients</a>, which shouldn't surprise you by now, given Shinkai's past works.
But don't let this sound like Makoto Shinkai is a man to only make somber works. He has also produced shorter, lighter works, such as the music video for Hiromi Iwasaki's "<a href="http://vimeo.com/13965752">Egao (The Smile)</a>", the two shorts "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YKuxZgDamM">A Gathering of Cats</a>" and "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwbnUQJGnA&t=32s">Someone's Gaze</a>," and "<a href="http://www.waoanime.tv/z-kai-cross-road-episode-1/">Z-Kai: Cross Road</a>", a short commercial (all clips feature Japanese audio with English subtitles). tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142854Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:48:56 -0800filthy light thiefAnimated mouse shown to destroy cels when exposed to Ecstasy.http://www.metafilter.com/139267/Animated%2Dmouse%2Dshown%2Dto%2Ddestroy%2Dcels%2Dwhen%2Dexposed%2Dto%2DEcstasy
<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-21/on-your-mark-pulled-from-miyazaki-box-sets-after-aska-drug-arrest/.74734">Disney Studios censors Miyazaki collection, pulls Studio Ghibli compilation.</a> "<a href="http://vimeo.com/48043470">On Your Mark</a>" a video directed by Hiyao Miyazaki, and <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/oym/credits.html">produced between early January and late May, 1995 by a team of over fifty animators at Studio Ghibli</a>, in cooperation with other studios, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-05-21/on-your-mark-pulled-from-miyazaki-box-sets-after-aska-drug-arrest/.74734">is being censored</a> from the upcoming 13-disc <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-31/miyazaki-1st-directorial-work-listed-in-13-disc-blu-ray/dvd-box-set">"Collected Works of Director Hayao Miyazaki" collection</a>. Disney is also stopping shipments of a 2005 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000AOXE1I/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Ghibli Shorts collection</a>, which features the video, along 22 other shorts that Studio Ghibli produced over the course of decades.
The rationale?! Nineteen years after the video's release, one of the members of the band that did the music for the video <a href="http://majide2ch.blogspot.com/2014/05/roundup-of-news-about-askas-arrest.html">has been arrested, along with a female acquaintance</a>, after police found MDMA at his home. The musician was arrested Saturday, but has not been charged or convicted, as yet. Both he and the woman he was arrested with claim to be innocent. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.139267Wed, 21 May 2014 10:42:52 -0800markkraft"All I wanted to do was make something beautiful."http://www.metafilter.com/130978/All%2DI%2Dwanted%2Dto%2Ddo%2Dwas%2Dmake%2Dsomething%2Dbeautiful
An <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhHoCnRg1Yw">English-subtitled trailer</a> is now available for Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's latest film, <em>The Wind Rises</em> (<em>Kaze Tachinu</em>), which will <a href="http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/windrises">premiere to English-speaking audiences at this year's Toronto International Film Festival</a>. The film is a loosely-adapted biography of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Horikoshi">Jirō Horikoshi</a>, designer of the infamous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero">Mitsubishi A6M Zero</a>, the fighter responsible for Japan's air superiority early in World War II. The film has ruled the Japanese box offices in the weeks following its recent release there, perhaps in part thanks to Mr. Miyazaki's <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-07-25/hayao-miyazaki-pens-essay-on-japanese-constitutional-reform">public criticism of recent efforts to reform the Japanese constitution</a>. Miyazaki, a staunch pacifist, <a href="http://japanfocus.org/events/view/189">particularly opposes</a> the current administration's position towards revising Article 9 of the Japanese constitution, which prohibits the nation from maintaining a standing military force:
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Miyazaki clearly places responsibility on the "militarist government" for leading Japan to violent expansion and then to ruin, but also interrogates the war responsibility of his family and by extension, the wider civilian population. <em>Kaze Tachinu</em> protagonist Horikoshi, an engineer who had no choice but to work for the military if he wanted to continue to design airplanes, is seen by Miyazaki as an important figure for understanding the pressures felt by civilians in wartime and grasping "just how messed-up this country really was."
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It remains to be seen how other audiences will react to a film that is both anti-war and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/06/entertainment-us-japan-film-miyazaki-idUSBRE97507420130806">a love letter to a warplane</a>. <em>The Wind Rises</em> does not yet have a US release date. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130978Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:37:50 -0800Sokka shot firstJoe Hisaishi in Budokan, celebrating 25 years of Studio Ghibli musichttp://www.metafilter.com/129533/Joe%2DHisaishi%2Din%2DBudokan%2Dcelebrating%2D25%2Dyears%2Dof%2DStudio%2DGhibli%2Dmusic
<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Joe_Hisaishi_in_Budokan"><em>Joe Hisaishi in Budokan</em> was a series of concerts given in August 2008 to commemorate both the Japanese theatrical premiere of <em>Ponyo</em> and the 25 years of musical collaboration between composer Joe Hisaishi and film maker Hayao Miyazaki</a>. This massive concert featured performances of these signature Miyazaki film scores composed by Hisaishi, conducting from the piano, and the 200-member New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra, along with six featured vocalists, the 800 combined voices of the Ippan Koubo, Ritsuyuukai and Little Singers of Tokyo choirs, plus a 160-piece marching band. Altogether there were some 1160 musicians and singers on stage, backed by images from Miyazaki's films projected on a giant screen. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVCdLi6FGVg">The almost two hour long show is on YouTube in HD, for your viewing pleasure</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129533Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:04:04 -0800filthy light thiefKittybus!http://www.metafilter.com/127081/Kittybus
<a href="http://www.kotaku.com/these-real-totoro-catbuses-will-delight-you-473200486">The Real Catbuses of Japan</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127081Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:23:00 -0800ArtwToren Smith, 1960-2013http://www.metafilter.com/125735/Toren%2DSmith%2D19602013
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<a href="http://www.comicbox.co.jp/e-nau/toren.html">I had discovered the Animage comics version of Nausicaa</a>, which provided my entry into the world of Japanese comics--a world which was to cause me to devote my life to bringing it to all English-speaking people.
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toren_Smith">Toren Smith</a>, a brilliant editor and translator and one of Japanese comics' first and greatest advocates in the English-speaking world, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-03-06/manga-translation-pioneer-toren-smith-passes-away">is dead</a>. Anglophone <em>otaku</em> the world over have Smith and the manga import company he founded, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Proteus">Studio Proteus</a>, to thank for much of the existence of their hobby. In addition to his instrumentality in bringing titles like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)">Akira</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domu">Domu</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Goddess!">Oh My Goddess</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_of_the_immortal">Blade of the Immortal</a> to the English-speaking world, Smith and Studio Proteus translated much of Science Fiction legend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masamune_Shirow">Masamune Shirow</a>'s oeuvre into English, starting with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleseed_(manga)">Appleseed</a> and continuing with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion:_Tank_Police">Dominion</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell">Ghost in the Shell</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(manga)">Orion</a>.
Over the course of his career he became involved with <a href="http://www.gwern.net/docs/2002-notenki-memoirs#gainax-house">über-nerd animation studio</a> Gainax, who immortalized him in <em>Gunbuster</em> as "Smith Toren," a <a href="http://www.toponeraegunbuster.com/Gunbuster-SupportingCast.html">robot pilot</a> aboard the <em>Exelion</em>.
Of Studio Proteus's legendary and unimpeachable translation of Hayao Miyazaki's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(manga)">Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind</a>, Smith <a href="http://www.comicbox.co.jp/e-nau/toren.html">said</a>:
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Above all, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Orzechowski">Tom</a>, Dana and myself all agreed that despite all the hard work we were doing, we wanted our work to be totally invisible to the readers. We hoped that, when we were done, the English-language readers would never notice the translation, the sound effects or the lettering--they would simply read and enjoy this incredible story without ever thinking about the fact that it was translated from another language.
</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.125735Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:10:00 -0800Sokka shot firstThe Manga of Miyazakihttp://www.metafilter.com/108047/The%2DManga%2Dof%2DMiyazaki
If you recognize the name <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a>, it's most likely due to <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95246/Roger-Ebert-on-Anime-with-a-focus-on-Hayao-Miyazaki-and-Studio-Ghibli">his anime films</a>. But along with his involvement in animation, Miyazaki has produced <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/">some manga and illustrated story books</a>. Part of the reason his work in still images is less known is lack of translation and distribution. That's where <a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/search/label/books">the fans</a> come in, digging up and translating many Miyazaki works, back to <a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2011/04/miyazakis-first-manga-people-of-desert.html">his first published manga</a>, which was a serious serialized work, in 1969-1970. Predating his first solo manga, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/sabaku.html">Sabaku no tami</a> (People of the Desert), there was a 1969 <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/neko.html">Puss in Boots manga</a>, tying into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_in_Boots_%281969_film%29">Puss in Boots movie</a> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A718NDTUw">Japanese trailer with English subs</a>; <a href="http://www.filmaionline.eu/batuotas-katinas-the-wonderful-world-of-puss-n-boots-t1555.html">Japanese movie with Lithuanian (?) overdubbing</a>), on which Miyazaki worked as a key animator. In 1972, there was a similar <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/doubutsu.html">serialized manga of a movie</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dbutsu_Takarajima">Dōbutsu Takarajima</a> (Animal Treasure Island; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9qmhzVKePc">Japanese trailer #1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnkkgg7OGQs">#2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4moXwh-5wc">Swedish dub</a> with moments of English).
<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/shuna.html">Shuna no tabi</a> (<a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shuna_no_tabi/">The Journey of Shuna</a>) is a short watercolor manga that was released in 1983, something of a proto-Nausicaä.
<a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2011/03/history-on-miyazakis-mononoke-book.html">Miyazaki released a book of image boards in 1983</a>, including images of movies he had only dreamed of making. One of those stories was titled <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/books/mh/mononoke80.html">Mononoke Hime</a> (Princess Mononoke). <a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2008/03/mononoke-hime-1980-original-miyazaki.html">The story is vaguely along the lines of Beauty and the Beast</a>, and includes imagery that would appear in future Miyazaki movies, including <a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2011/03/1980-mononoke-hime-book-meets-spirited.html">Spirited Away</a>. The story line is a huge change from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke">the movie as released</a>.
That same year, Miyazaki released a short illustrated story, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/imouto.html">Imouto he</a> (<a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2008/03/imoto-he-for-my-sister-1983.html">For My Sister</a>). I'll leave the 17 page story to stand on its own.
From 1982 to 1994, Miyazaki published his serialized epic <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/nausicaa.html">Kaze no tani no Naushika</a> (<a href="http://manga.animea.net/nausicaa-of-the-valley-of-the-wind.html">Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind</a>). <a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/research/spacesciences/hairston/nausicaamanga_film.html">The first two volumes were used as the grounds for the movie</a>, but the story continued on for another 5 volumes of manga.
In 1989 or 1990, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/hikoutei.html">Hikōtei Jidai</a> (The Age of the Flying Boat) was published in Japan, showing a story that would evolve into the 1992 film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso">Porco Rosso</a>. In 1993, a US magazine focused on anime and manga <a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2010/03/miyazaki-comics-age-of-flying-boat-1989.html">published an English translation</a>, 13 years in advance of the US release of Porco Rosso on DVD.
<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/zassou.html">Zassō Nōto</a> (<a href="http://www.flutterscape.com/product/no/4976/hayao-miyazaki-rsquo-s-daydream-data-notes-only-japan">Daydream data notes</a>) is a series of sporadically released graphic essays on Miyazaki's manga stories, mecha ideas, or movie ideas about tanks, planes, or battleships from the era before World War II. The essays were serialized from 1984 through 1990, and compiled into one volume in 1997. Some of the stories were broken out into their own publications, including <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/hans.html">Hansu no kikan</a> (<a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2011/04/miyazaki-comics-return-of-hans-1994.html">The Return of Hans</a>), in 1994.
<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Dining_in_the_Air">Kūchū de o-Shokuji</a> (Dining in the Air) is an illustrated history of in-flight food, published in 1994 in a Japan Airlines in-flight magazine. The manga is available in English in <a href="http://comicsworthreading.com/2009/11/03/hayao-miyazakis-starting-point-1979-1996/">Starting Point: 1979-1996</a>, a collection of Miyazaki's writings and interviews.
<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/otto.html">Doromamire no tora</a> (Tigers Covered with Mud) was a six-volume serialized manga, published from 1998 to 1999. A fan translator describes it as "<a href="http://mangascanlations.kommiekomiks.com/">one of the very best comics in the world involving pigs and tanks</a>."
In 2006, <a href="http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2006/10/miyazakis-latest-manga.html">Miyazaki provided a new cover illustration and a 23 page manga</a>, titled A Trip to Tynemouth, for a Japanese re-issue of <a href="http://vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fearfullyfrightening&action=display&thread=4431">British World War II ghost stories</a>.
Most recently was the 2009 manga <a href="http://www.gottsu-iiyan.ca/gib/index.php/2009/04/13/hayao-miyazaki-s-kaze-tachinu-preview">Kaze Tachinu</a>, featuring more love for old aircraft. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.108047Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:21:54 -0800filthy light thiefRoger Ebert on Anime, with a focus on Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghiblihttp://www.metafilter.com/95246/Roger%2DEbert%2Don%2DAnime%2Dwith%2Da%2Dfocus%2Don%2DHayao%2DMiyazaki%2Dand%2DStudio%2DGhibli
"In Japan, animation is not seen as the exclusive realm of children's and family films, but is often used for adult, science fiction and action stories, where it allows a kind of freedom impossible in real life. Some Hollywood films strain so desperately against the constraints of the possible that you wish they'd just caved in and gone with animation." -- <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040130/REVIEWS/401300306/1023">Roger Ebert on anime</a>, with this excerpt being related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Godfathers">Tokyo Godfathers</a>. Ebert has been a fan of anime for a while, especially the works of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a>. Ebert has reviewed 6 of the 18 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli">Studio Ghibli</a> films released to date, and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991024/PEOPLE/10010351/1023">even interviewed Miyazaki</a> with a bit of fanboy glee. <small>More reviews and videos inside.</small> <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/1999-05-29/siskel-and-ebert-animation-special-to-feature-anime">Roger Ebert could be considered something of a closet "otaku"</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku">Japanese for "fan" or "fanatic"</a>, though the term is often applied to anime fans in the US), and he even added a small comment on <a href="http://www.usaanime.us/References/Sub-Dub.htm">the dub vs subtitle otaku war</a> ("<a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/finding_my_own_voice.html#comment-749019">I know. The best is subtitled DVDs.</a>"). Ebert has reviewed anime movies since they first were screened on US theaters at large, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28film%29">Ghost in the Shell</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/">1995</a>) being <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2l3hEEtdk">positively reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a> (YT) and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960412/REVIEWS/604120302/1023">in print by Ebert</a> in 1996. The year before, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950512/REVIEWS/505120307/1023">Ebert reviewed</a> another anime movie, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wings_of_Honneamise">The Wings Of Honneamise</a>, which got <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951231/COMMENTARY/40308018/1023">an honorable mention in Ebert's top 10 for 1995</a>, though <a href="http://www.obkb.com/dcljr/serevtxt.html">it wasn't reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a>. In 1996 <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/disney/">the Walt Disney Corporation and Tokuma Publishing first formed a deal</a> in which Disney was granted the rights to distribute many of Tokuma's works, including most of the Studio Ghibli films, throughout much of the world. The <a href="http://www.ultimatedisney.com/kikisdeliveryservice.html">first Studio Ghibli film to get "the Disney treatment"</a> under the new arrangement was Kiki's Delivery Service, which was released in the US on September 1, 1998, eight years after the Japanese release. Ebert has since reviewed all major Ghibli releases, both in print and as part of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies_%28U.S._TV_series%29">At The Movies</a>, even covering some of the earlier Ghibli-related titles.
<b><u>Feature-length Studio Ghibli films</u></b>
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_%28film%29">Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/">1984</a>, Miyazaki) - reviewed by <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2010/08/from-the-valley-of-the-wind.html"> Michael Mirasol</a>, <a href="http://michaelmirasol.com/flipcritic/">the Flipcritic</a>, as part of <a href="">the Foreign Correspondents feature</a> that is edited by Roger Ebert. The movie, based on <a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/nausica_of_the_valley_of_the_wind/">the manga by Miyazaki</a>, was produced before Studio Ghibli but is often considered the starting point for the studio. First released as a heavily edited and awkwardly re-dubbed work entitled <a href="http://5x5media.com/eye/film/wotw.php">Warriors of the Wind</a> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJUDNaGUe48">YT trailer</a>), <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/faq.html#dub">later re-dubbed by Disney</a> and kept true to the original form. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUHWqa9O19Q">English subtitled Japanese trailer collection</a> (YT), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8704790173215648057#">full English dubbed movie</a> (Google video)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky">Laputa: Castle in the Sky</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/laputa/">1986</a>, Miyazaki) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090527/REVIEWS/905279997/1023">refered to as a point of comparison</a> for some design features in Pixar's <em>Up</em>, but not reviewed by Ebert. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPZXdKtmaY0">subtitled Japanese trailer 1</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBc01PvLD0I">subbed Japanese trailer 2</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyrx3iI2uRc">English dub trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6158179660291495569#">full English dub</a> (Gv)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies">Grave of the Fireflies</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/">1988</a>, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/takahata/">Isao Takahata</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRXg_ovaE94">review by Ebert</a> (YT clip, edited and extended by a fan) from the Ebert &amp; Roeper era, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000319/REVIEWS08/3190301/1023">in print</a>, where he said the film was "an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation," and included in <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=greatmovies_fulllist">Ebert's list of great movies</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSPwdBIbx_U">subbed Japanese trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55935750">full English dub</a> (MySpace video)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbour_Totoro">My Neighbor Totoro</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/">1988</a>, Miyazaki) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qBl46hC0U">reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011223/REVIEWS08/112230301/1023">in print</a>, where Ebert said "Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy.... Whenever I watch it, I smile, and smile, and smile." Ebert also included it on his list of great movies. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp9PDj_zb1k">Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcMwpNidCYM">short clip of English voice actors on the movie</a>, <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/FEo8rXhaqno/">original Japanese movie unsubbed</a>, <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56162071">Fox Home Video/Troma dub</a> (MySpace vid / <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/article_presskit.txt">Troma presskit</a>)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki%27s_Delivery_Service">Kiki's Delivery Service</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/kiki/">1989</a>, Miyazaki) - <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/kiki/reviews.html#se913">transcript of Siskel and Ebert At The Movies review</a>, not reviewed in print by Ebert, but <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19981231/COMMENTARY/40308009/1023">included in his Best Movies of 1998</a> (when the US dub was released) in <b>The Chuck Jones Award</b> category for '<em>feature-length cartoons are breaking away from the "children and family" category and growing up into full-bodied entertainments.</em>' Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxKgOkcQFOQ">Japanese trailer 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPbfQJZNZ9M">Japanese trailer 2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pow4NtGs4Q">Japanese trailer 3</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiyRWdx9WwQ">1998 Disney edition trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piIdiZ44zzU">updated Disney trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.56.com/u13/v_NTI4NDA4MzQ.html">Japanese video with Chinese subtitles</a> (56.com), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7339060580080249868#">first 11 minutes of the English dub</a> (Gv), and <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55778063">the full US dub</a> (MSv)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Yesterday_%28film%29">Only Yesterday</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/opp/">1991</a>, Takahata) - not reviewed by Ebert, and is the only theatrical Studio Ghibli release not available in the US, though <a href="http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=114170&mainArticleId=114160">Turner Classic Movies aired it</a> in January 2006 as part of <a href="http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=114160">tribute to Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli</a>. "<a href="http://antagonie.blogspot.com/2010/05/studio-ghibli-only-yesterday-takahata.html">No matter what your preconceptions about anime might be, <em>Only Yesterday</em> probably confounds them.</a>" Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9WNAcPcIGY">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> (YT), <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTY2NDY1ODE2.html">Chinese dub</a> (Youku)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso">Porco Rosso</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/porco/">1992</a>, Miyazaki) - not reviewed by Ebert, this movie grew from what was intended to be an in-flight short, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/porco/">"a movie which tired businessmen on international flights can enjoy even with their minds dulled due to lack of oxygen."</a> Miyazaki expanded the idea into <a href="http://www.danielthomas.org/pop/film_reviews/porco.htm">a story of a pig of a man, along with his friends and enemies, in the Adriatic in 1929</a>, during the early days of the Great Depression and the rise of Italian fascism. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQXYEYqo-0">Japanese trailer 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zibFwVWgICc">Japanese trailer 2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMIDDkW_giU">Making of the English dub</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/anime/watch/v15414987s6aZetQh">Japanese version with English subs</a> (Veoh, req. Windows-only player plugin)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Waves_%28film%29">Ocean Waves</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/umi/">1993</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2270">Tomomi Mochizuki</a>) - also known as <em>I Can Hear the Sea</em> (literal translation), this was Studio Ghibli's first made-for-TV movie, and only one to date. It was also the first Ghibli movie directed by someone other than Miyazaki or Takahata, though Mochizuki had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomomi_Mochizuki">directed other works before</a>. Videos: <a href="">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> (YT), <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ1NDg2NjEy.html">full movie with Chinese subs</a> (Youku)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_Poko">Pom Poko</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110008/">1994</a>, Takahata</a>) - <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/pompoko/impressions.html#5">briefly discussed</a> in a <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ANSWERMAN">Movie Answer Man</a> column, insofar that Ebert thought that a movie featuring mythical abilities of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki">tanuki</a>, or <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/77299/Anchors-Aweigh">racoon dog</a>, would not mesh with cultural and moral understandings elsewhere. In short, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-TizuYcE0A">their ability to transform their testicles into many forms</a> (YT, SFW <small>if your work is OK with animated expanding animal testicles</small>). Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOf-0pbSG1w">collection of Japanese trailers</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguqhItuPsk">Japanese trailer with English subs</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAfqTDoqX98">French trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56416425">full movie, US dub</a> (MSv), <a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/1580928-pom-poko-english-dub">full US dub</a> (Vodpod)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart_%28film%29">Whisper of the Heart</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113824/">1995</a>, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Yoshifumi_Kond%C5%8D">Yoshifumi Kondō</a>) - not reviewed by Ebert, roughly based on <a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mimi_wo_sumaseba/">manga of the same name</a>, and the first appearance of <a href="http://www.absoluteanime.com/whisper_of_the_heart/baron.htm">the Baron character</a>. Kondō had worked with Miyazaki and Takahata before the formation of Studio Ghibli back <a href="http://samuraifrog.blogspot.com/2007/06/masters-of-animation-studio-ghibli.html">in the mid-1970s</a>, and <a href="http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=114169&mainArticleId=114160">seen as the natural successor to Miyazaki</a> and Takahata. Kondo passed away from an aneurysm at age 47, in January 1998. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYOqQpMM_ZI">long Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFw-sc0DdUY">short Japanese trailer with English subs</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ID3prUHbxE">"Behind the Microphone" English dub clip</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55991546">full US dub</a> (MSv)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke">Princess Mononoke</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/">1997</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GEs6m4zutU">discussed by guest reviewer Harry Knowles</a> (YT) of <a href="http://www.aintitcoolNEWS.com/">Ain't It Cool News</a>, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991029/REVIEWS/910290303/1023">print review by Ebert</a>, in which he said: "Hayao Miyazaki is a great animator, and his 'Princess Mononoke' is a great film. Do not allow conventional thoughts about animation to prevent you from seeing it." The movie also ranked as <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991231/COMMENTARY/40308007/1023">#6 on Ebert's top 10 films for 1999</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiD8KLXPEk">Japanese trailer 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5UTaVo0beY">Japanese trailer 2 with English subs</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY">US trailer</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozKsmxNv8-o">Behind the Microphone</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55911145">Full US dub</a> (MSv)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbours_the_Yamadas">My Neighbors the Yamadas</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/yamada/">1999</a>, Takahata) - not reviewed by Ebert, this movie is the based on a <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/yamada/manga.html">serialized comic strip</a>, and is the first Studio Ghibli film completely made digitally, to achieve the appearance of being made with watercolors, instead of the cel-painted form of other Ghibli films. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H64k8EKuKU">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1UqLOD6TC0">Behind the Microphone</a> (YT), <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTMzNzY5NDg=.html">full Japanese movie with Chinese subs</a> (Youku)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away">Spirited Away</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/">2001</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c26gy8Jb-8c">reviewed by Ebert &amp; Roeper</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020920/REVIEWS/209200306/1023">in print</a> ("I feel like I'm giving a pitch on an infomercial, but I make these points because I come bearing news: This is a wonderful film. Don't avoid it because of what you think you know about animation from Japan. And if you only go to Disney animation--well, this is being released by Disney."), and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021231/COMMENTARY/40305001/1023">#8 in Ebert's top 10 movies of 2002</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaBn9Emmlw">Japanese trailer with English subs</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jGXcSBcvQQ">US trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaL9Duhqdu4">Behind the Microphone</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqbKETUzZg">making of Spirited Away (Japanese language with English subs) part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwp3W60YqxQ">part 2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKo6zknHAfE&">part 3</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgJuT8Q81k">part 4</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ziyBeqvPpg">part 5</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYfAVMySQo">part 6</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56216502">full US dub</a> (MSv)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Returns">The Cat Returns</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/neko/">2002</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Morita">Hiroyuki Morita</a>) - not reviewed by Ebert, the film features the return of some elements found in <em>Whisper of the Heart</em>, and is based on the manga <a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/baron_the_cat_returns/">Baron: The Cat Returns</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoi_Hiiragi">Aoi Hiiragi</a>, who created the manga behind <em>Whisper</em>. She was commissioned to create the short manga by Studio Ghibli, who were asked to make a short film starring cats. The theme park canceled the project, but the manga was created, and the short film expanded into a movie. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnUl1NmIZ_o">Japanese teaser with English subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7NQ0qs7N0">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56382926">full US dub</a> (MSv)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl%27s_Moving_Castle_%28film%29">Howl's Moving Castle</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347149/">2004</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X79Mm_7zs_Y">reviewed by Ebert &amp; Roeper</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050609/REVIEWS/50601002">in print</a>, where Ebert said the movie was "a disappointment, compared to [Miyazaki's] recent work." Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfcfUxt4F0s">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> and <a href="">US trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8604596739848246425#">full US dub</a> (Gv), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55832588">full US dub</a> (MSv)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_%28film%29">Tales from Earthsea</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/">2006</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor%C5%8D_Miyazaki">Gorō Miyazaki</a>) - not reviewed by Ebert, this film was directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son, who had <a href="http://www.ghibliworld.com/gedosenkiatviff2006.html">initially not wanted to follow his father, yet returned to prove his capabilities</a>, though the resulting movie faced mixed review of an odd sort. The movie is loosely based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea">first four Earthsea books</a> by <a href="http://www.ursulakleguin.com/">Ursula K. Le Guin</a>. The younger Miyazaki turned from animation and instead <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/profile.html">became a construction consultant of parks and gardens</a>, but was invited to work on the <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/museum/">Studio Ghibli Museum</a>, and he was <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/faq.html#goro">the museum's director from 2001 to 2005</a>, when he turned his attention to directing his first film. Gorō <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/">wrote about the process</a>, how <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/prologue.html">his father was against his son directing "Tales from Earthsea"</a>, and <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/blog41.html">Gorō gave Hayao Miyazaki gets zero marks as a father, but full marks as a director of animated films</a> (though <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/blog68.html">another story slipped out</a> in a supplementary entry while the director was busy). Hayao Miyazaki attended the launch party without telling his son, and passed along a few positive words at the end -- "<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/blog112.html">It was made honestly, so it was good</a>," which greatly lifted Gorō's spirits. -- <a href="http://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html">review by Ursula K. Le Guin</a>, and <a href="http://www.suite101.com/content/miyazaki-family-feud-redux-a7387">drama reaches the English-speaking 'net</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05sCTxnEs9Y">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkYyniVj8k">English trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56385817">full US dub</a> (MSv)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponyo">Ponyo</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876563/">2008</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-RluzKAFeM">reviewed by Lyons and Mankiewicz</a> (YT) in their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies_%28U.S._TV_series%29#Lyons_and_Mankiewicz_.282008.E2.80.932009.29">continuation of At the Movies</a>, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090812/REVIEWS/908129989">print review by Ebert</a> ("This cannot help sounding like standard animated fare. But I have failed to evoke the wonder of Hayao Miyazaki's artistry. This 68-year-old Japanese master continues to create animation drawn by hand, just as "Snow White" and "Pinocchio" were. There is a fluid, organic quality to his work that exposes the facile efficiency of CGI. And, my God! — his imagination!"). Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4rqs62pL8">Japanese trailer with English YT pop-up subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soHf8jnmQNs">US trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/UVNXDylLdO8/">full Japanese movie with Chinese subs</a> (Tudou), <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/anime/watch/v197864902GmwkHqJ">full English dub</a> (Veoh, plugin req.)
+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrower_Arrietty">The Borrower Arrietty</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Arrietty_the_Borrower">2010</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromasa_Yonebayashi">Hiromasa Yonebayashi</a>) - Released to theaters in Japan on July 17, 2010, this movie is based on the 1952 children's fantasy novel, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers">The Borrowers</a>. This is Yonebayashi's directorial debut, and <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Latest_News">Miyazaki sounds pleased with the results</a> <small>(time-sensitive link, pointing to GhibliWiki's Latest News, with translations of a YouTube clip that is already removed. A bit of translation, copied for posterity from GhibliWiki: Miyazaki says to Yonebayashi, "You did it really well. It was three times better than I thought. You had better take a rest for awhile. It is not a shameful work even if we show it to anyone. I felt a director appeared at last. I was relieved. It was really good. I cried." (laughs) )</small> Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzpjowGmY-A">Japanese teaser</a> and <a href="">Japanese trailer</a> (YT)
<b><u>Other anime films reviewed by Ebert (and friends)</u></b>
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wings_of_Honneamise">Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093207/">1987</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1519">Hiroyuki Yamaga</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950512/REVIEWS/505120307/1023">reviewed in print only</a>, listed with <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951231/COMMENTARY/40308018/1023">an honorable mention in Ebert's top 10 for 1995</a> when it was released in the US. Videos: <a href="">Japanese trailer</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fcvUrhFEpk">Manga Ent. US trailer</a> (YT).
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z">Roujin Z</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102812/">1991</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=5">Hiroyuki Kitakubo</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960405/REVIEWS/604050303/1023">reviewed by Ebert in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4K3OkRqL8">US trailer</a> (YT)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28film%29">Ghost in the Shell</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/">1995</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=52">Mamoru Oshii</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2l3hEEtdk">reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a> (YT) and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960412/REVIEWS/604120302/1023">in print by Ebert</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-hU1xHpig">Japanese trailer</a> <small>(YT login required)</small>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP2Pt6m3yKU">US trailer</a> <small>(NSFW - animated nudity)</small>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1P2J7fXWkg">US dub in 6 parts</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/rnUmUo3nc8w/">full movie with original Japanese soundtrack and Chinese subtitles</a> (Tudou), and <a href="http://vimeo.com/10662248">Conan O'Brien &amp; Andy Richter dubbing the movie</a> (Vimeo).
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28anime%29">Metropolis</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293416/">2001</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2617">Rintaro</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIS3DVc1f4">reviewed by Ebert &amp; Roeper</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020125/REVIEWS/201250304/1023">in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJLcOW4vzPY">Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZfZwqeCrA">Japanese teaser</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdxJHPucC8I">US trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/lbSV57oQ1jc/">full Japanese movie with Chinese subs</a> (Tudou)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Godfathers">Tokyo Godfathers</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388473/">2003</a>, <a href="http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/satoshi_kon.shtml">Satoshi Kon</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95096/Satoshi-Kon-director-of-Perfect-Blue-and-Millennium-Actress-dead-at-47">previous [obit]</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040130/REVIEWS/401300306/1023">reviewed in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q6mcx2qF4Q">US trailer</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUJnhQ4wpFg">full Japanese movie with English subs</a> (YT)
* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboy">Steamboy</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348121/">2004</a>, <a href="http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/katsuhiro_otomo.shtml">Katsuhiro Otomo</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050317/REVIEWS/50309001/1001">reviewed by Ebert in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1haSQGb3xs">Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAk6oNBSMU">US trailer</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcsRUmb8hOs">US dub in 13 parts</a> (YT) tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.95246Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:46:06 -0800filthy light thiefHowl's Moving Castle papercrafthttp://www.metafilter.com/69363/Howls%2DMoving%2DCastle%2Dpapercraft
Howl's Moving Castle - in <a href="http://paperkraft.blogspot.com/2006/03/howls-moving-castle.html">papercraft</a>. Stop motion animation <a href="http://ben.momillett.org/archives/2007/07/22/hmc-papercraft/">of the assembly here</a>, flickr set of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/benmillett/sets/72157600927267829/">finished product here</a>, details <a href="http://www.ghibliworld.com/howlscollection.html#8">on the kit here</a>. Found <a href="http://www.ragandbone.com/blog/?p=642">via</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69363Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:33:19 -0800jonsonLe Roi et L'oiseauhttp://www.metafilter.com/47639/Le%2DRoi%2Det%2DLoiseau
<a href="http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=6335">Le Roi et L'oiseau</a> - is an old school "anime" by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342156/">Paul Grimault</a>, the script and score were contributed to by <a href="http://http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0699535/">Jacques Prévert</a>. If those two names are not good enough for you then I also submit for your approval that the style in this film has been referenced as a source of inspiration for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a>. Although the wikipedia article doesn't back it up, so ill link to another site that <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/miyazaki/101.html">does</a>. At any rate watching this movie will leave you wondering just how many people have ripped it off over the years. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47639Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:57:46 -0800sourbrewHayao Miyazaki, the master of animationhttp://www.metafilter.com/24512/Hayao%2DMiyazaki%2Dthe%2Dmaster%2Dof%2Danimation
Among <a href=http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/>Hayao Miyazaki</a>'s masterpieces are <i><a href=http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/>Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind</a></i>, <i><a href=http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Fuji/9270/index.html>Princess Mononoke</a></i>, and, most recently, <i><a href=http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/>Spirited Away</a></i>. With the April 15 US release of <i>Spirited Away</i>, <i><a href=http://www.wingsee.com/ghibli/kiki/>Kiki's Delivery Service</a></i>, and <i><a href=http://www.wingsee.com/ghibli/laputa/>Laputa: Castle in the Sky</a></i>, an <a href=http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nom_32068.html>Academy nomination</a> for Spirited Away, and <a href=http://nausicaa.net/miyazaki/disney/>Disney's commitment</a> to release re-dubbed, re-mastered versions of Miyazaki's films in the US and worldwide, the American public is getting more acquainted with this legend of animation. Miyazaki's films are not your regular anime [more inside...]</font> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24512Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:58:40 -0800azazello